Tianwen, which means "questions to heaven," is the name given to China's program of robotic Solar System exploration. Tianwen ...

A new dwarf planet, discovered beyond Neptune and described as Pluto's 'cousin,' could void the hypothesis of a Planet X in ...

Astronomers have announced the discovery of a new dwarf planet in our solar system, named 2017 OF201. Located far beyond ...

After leaving Earth, Tianwen-2 will reach Kamo‘oalewa by July 2026. This tiny, elongated asteroid likely spans no more than ...

China's Tianwen-2 spacecraft is scheduled to launch this week and will study two solar system bodies up close.

Astronomers have detected the largest comet ever recorded in the solar system — Bernardinelli-Bernstein, a colossal 100-kilometer-wide space giant, currently traveling toward the sun from the distant ...

China launches Tianwen-2 to collect asteroid samples and chase a rare comet, marking a bold leap in its high-stakes Solar System exploration mission.

A new member of the solar system has been detected, the second-largest of its kind, suggesting there may be more like it ...

Scientists are intrigued after spotting a highly unusual celestial object lurking at the very edge of our solar system. It's ...

The plains house the aptly named Very Large Array (VLA)—a radio telescope made of 27 different antennas, each of which looks ...